Record Number: 28267

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Reading Experience:

Evidence:

[Elizabeth Carter to Catherine Talbot, 11 October 1766:] 'Fye upon you and your popish saints [...] Your whole folio [of saints' lives] is not half so well worth reading as Lloyd's Chronicle, which has often given me the comfort of seeing the archbishop [of Canterbury]'s name, and inferring because he was very busy he must be very well.'

Century:

1700-1799

Date:

Between 1 Jan 1766 and 11 Oct 1766

Country:

England

Time

n/a

Place:

n/a

Type of Experience
(Reader):
 

silent aloud unknown
solitary in company unknown
single serial unknown

Type of Experience
(Listener):
 

solitary in company unknown
single serial unknown

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Reader / Listener / Reading Group:

Reader:

Elizabeth Carter

Age:

Adult (18-100+)

Gender:

Female

Date of Birth:

1717

Socio-Economic Group:

Professional / academic / merchant / farmer

Occupation:

Writer

Religion:

n/a

Country of Origin:

England

Country of Experience:

England

Listeners present if any:
e.g family, servants, friends

n/a

Additional Comments:

n/a

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Text Being Read:

Author:

Title:

Lloyd's Chronicle

Genre:

Reference / General works

Form of Text:

Print: Newspaper, Serial / periodical

Publication Details

n/a

Provenance

unknown

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Source Information:

Record ID:

28267

Source:

Print

Author:

n/a

Editor:

Montagu Pennington

Title:

A Series of Letters between Mrs Elizabeth Carter and Miss Catherine Talbot, from the year 1741 to 1770. To which are added, Letters from Mrs Elizabeth Carter to Mrs Vesey, between the years 1763 and 1787

Place of Publication:

London

Date of Publication:

1809

Vol:

3

Page:

147

Additional Comments:

n/a

Citation:

Montagu Pennington (ed.), A Series of Letters between Mrs Elizabeth Carter and Miss Catherine Talbot, from the year 1741 to 1770. To which are added, Letters from Mrs Elizabeth Carter to Mrs Vesey, between the years 1763 and 1787 (London, 1809), 3, p. 147, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/RED/record_details.php?id=28267, accessed: 25 April 2024

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Additional Comments:

See p.145 in source for letter of 24 September 1766 in which Talbot writes of reading saints' lives by Ribadeneira. The Archbishop of Canterbury was Talbot's stepfather, Thomas Secker, in whose household she lived.